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THE DANCE TO DEATH,
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WIFE.
I am all a-quiver.
I have seen monstrous sights, — an uncaged wolf,
The corpse of one sucked by a vampyre,
The widow Kupfen's malformed child — but never
Until this hour, a Jew.
3D CITIZEN.
D' ye call me Jew ?
Where do you spy one now ?
WIFE.
You 'll have your jest
Now or anon, what matters it?
4TH CITIZEN.
Well, I
Have seen a Jew, and seen one burn at that ;
Hard by in Wartburg ; he had killed a child.
Zounds! how the serpent wriggled! I smell now
The roasting, stinking flesh !
BOY.
Father, be these
The folk who murdered Jesus ?
